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After a month of wet and unsettled weather we finally had a couple of fine clear evenings which just happened to coincide with a fresh fall of snow on the mountain and a full moon so naturally, while sensible people stay home and go to bed, I've been out and about with my camera finding the best spots to take night photos of Taranaki.Secrets Of The NightSnow clad slopes glowingbeneath the arc of Te Rewa Rewa bridge.Luminous in the moonlight.City lights on the coast,lighthouse shining at the cape …

Here's a collection of birds spotted in our garden this week. The eastern rosellas are getting easier to spot now that the leaves have fallen. During summer we see them flying between trees and then just here them chattering away out of site so I was really pleased to get these shots of them in the top of our golden elm.  The pheasant has been particularly difficult to photograph. He's very wary, any hint of a movement to pick up a camera and he's off so I was really thrilled when I got thi …

It's been a wet Autumn, often raining overnight then clear in the morning for a while then more rain later in the day.  Taranaki, coming and going in the cloud. A lot of birds about in the garden and in the valley behind our house. Beauty unfolding all around us all the time. Your Own Soul Presence Rain overnight, clearing at dawn Now a clear blue sky, sun shining Paradise shelduck flying th …

I have always loved fantails or piwakawaka in Maori. I can remember, as a small child, sitting quietly in the bushy corners of my grandparents country garden watching fantails flitting around me catching insects. We have a healthy population of fantail in our garden and have seen a lot of young birds over this summer so it must have been a good breeding season. In a good season a pair of fantails can raise up to six broods. They are very nimble flyers and I have often been fascinated watchi …

Hihi gathering around the feeder taking their turn. Korimako pushes in then sits on a branch singing. The hihi scatter with flashes of yellow then return one by one sneaking in while the korimako concentrates on his song. In the distance tieke calling out notes rippling through the bush. A shadow overhead, a flight of kaka, cries echoing in the valley. Beauty manifesting herself in form, a movement, a song, a beat of wings the flight o …